After two months of using this soap in black that I got I realized that its upper concave surface on which rests the soap was turning gray. I just simply had formed a thin layer of soap scum that produced the visual effect. Two weeks later observed The small spot has expanded enormously. After wash the soap and note that there is no way to remove what he believed a glob, examined closely. It is not any adherent material but the contrary. The soap is made from a kind of gray stone and covered with a black paint that is peeling. But, let's see, who was the idiot who decided to make an object whose value is to hold onto its surface a little soap and water and eggs have decided to embellish it with paint is removed with a little soap and water?
Lithic S02E04 Column: Ted Williams, or fame at the time of the network
I've heard of a man
Who says words so beautifully
if I only That Speaks Their names
Women Give Themselves to him.
-Leonard Cohen
I: Good morning
Ted Williams, 53, survived by begging in an exit off I-71 in Columbus, Ohio, coin-changing words. A sign painted on a piece of cardboard told his story: "I have a voice that is a gift from God. I am a former radio announcer who has fallen into difficult times. Please! Any help would be appreciated with gratitude. Thank you and God bless. Happy holidays. " Ted had 14 years on the streets, living in homeless camps, among whom was known by his nickname: Radio Man, for his polite and soft baritone voice belied his disheveled and defeated. In the 80s, passing the school had left Williams a pleasant voice, presence and warmth, she devoted to radio stations in Ohio and North Carolina, but the abuse of alcohol and drugs was leaning lifestyle and ended in the street, leaving far behind family life and respectable job. Williams began the year 2011 never imagining that the overnight, literally, his life would change. The mysterious words today are: 15 minutes.
II: Enter the press
Over there in early December, the video reporter Doral Chenoweth, the newspaper The Columbus Dispatch , stopped to talk with Ted Williams, after reading the sign, and got a big surprise to hear him speak, his voice was indeed a divine gift, a radio voice polite, very pleasant, with body and presence. As in the case of Susan Boyle, the Scottish singer who rose to fame thanks to YouTube and the program Britain's Got Talent, the effect of surprise increased when comparing the voice with the character issue: Williams went with long matted hair, wearing old clothes and dirty, and more like a beggar. The reporter realized that here was a story to tell, so one week later returned with his camera and recorded a short video (just 97 seconds) in which the former radio announcer said a few sentences and pompous voice told her History in a nutshell. However, the interview would remain stored for several weeks, until the vagaries of the defendant business news headlines.
On Monday January 3rd was a day "loose" for the newspaper The Columbus Dispatch . Looking to fill the page, Doral Chenoweth remembered the video that was recorded a month earlier, and took the newspaper's Web portal. Hours later, someone copied the video and posted it on Youtube, triggering the phenomenon that would change the life of Ted Williams. By the afternoon of Tuesday, January 4, the clip had been viewed more than 4 million people, and many had replicated elsewhere, becoming a viral sensation. That night, Williams and did not sleep in the street, but in a hotel, paid for a radio station interested in interviewing him the next morning.
Wednesday 5 January, Williams was interviewed by any number of TV stations, newspapers and national broadcasters, many of which, besides wanting to know the details of his story, he offered jobs. The morning was a parade of deals on ESPN, MTV, the NFL, a basketball team that wanted him as its official voice, and radio and TV stations across the country. That day, Williams took a plane to New York and went to meet his mother, 90, who had not seen for 20 years, being greeted at the airport for that number of journalists, the airline decided to remove the back door to prevent harassment the recent internet celebrity . On Thursday 6, the former was a guest speaker at major talk shows that are broadcast from New York, and Friday and accepted a job offer from MSNBC. In these three days I have been many old acquaintances who say "I knew you were going to make big" and that you want to accommodate about, their old family also appeared after decade and a half, and everybody smiling and pat on the back. The only thing that Ted Williams has to do is open his mouth, literally, his voice makes the magic.
III: Fame at the time of the network
In February 1968, Stockholm's Moderna Museet opened to the public the first international retrospective of the work of artist Andy Warhol. In the exhibition catalog was a phrase that would be prophetic: "In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes." Warhol then not imagine even the appearance of the network and the influence it might have on human communication and did not know that three and a half decades after Youtube enter the scene, King Midas digital, capable of converting to more global star unexpected character. Gary Brolsma Numa Numa guy the , was one of the first ordinary individuals thrown into the Network fame, but today nobody remembers him at this time fame lasts 15 minutes, rarely more than that. At the time, shocked his followers Lonelygirl15 on YouTube in what seemed like an exciting video blog home which ended up being exposed as a professional show with an actress under contract. A certain Chris Crocker had his spotlight when whined on camera demanding "leave Britney alone!" Shtick that won him interviews on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, Jimmy Kimmel, Howard Stern and Ryan Seacrest, among others, and won him the appointment of "top video of 2007" by Wired magazine . Justin Bieber, current teen star, rose to fame after a producer with vision singing came across your videos on Youtube.
Mexico entered into the dubious honor of phenomena map thanks to Youtube video of Edgar, a Monterrey child who fell from a log trying to cross a river, enough merit to get international fame and even get a contract to do a commercial for cookies Emperor. The Son of Dad, also known as the Kanak, Mexico was another character whose fame came after being shown on YouTube, where appropriate, under arrest for drunken driving. Ironically, the Kanak died sober, hit by a drunk woman in Guadalajara, and his death was widely reported by national media.
IV: Play
Earlier in the pre-internet, to become famous had to make some merit. Now you just need to have a camera on hand and a network connection. Sometimes the results are to be embarrassed, and puts one to wonder about the evolution of mankind. However, in others, rarely, the mechanisms of contemporary fame allow us to find inspirational stories, like Ted Williams, and one thinks that, despite everything, it all seems lost.
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Vladimir Alexeevich Yarets was installed next to one of the outputs of the Skytrain in downtown Vancouver, and displayed a bulletin board with photographs, maps, flags and newspaper clippings of all the places he had traveled on his motorcycle. Belarusian Vladimir was a bearded, ever smiling and looking good-natured that, leaning on his motorcycle, he answered all the questions of the people and all had conversation. When I met him there By August 2003, Yarets was three years traveling around the world, having started in Minsk at 59 years of age. It was his first trip: since 1967 had been spent navigating roads, and over three decades had gone through all the republics of the Soviet Union. With these gait in tow, in 2000 imposed a goal: to become the first person born deaf and dumb to go around the globe. The mysterious words today are: hic sunt DRAGONS.
II: "And there is / part of the air"
His early pictures, from the late 60s, are in black and white show him clean-shaven thin, smiling at some anonymous town in Uzbekistan with a toothless old woman looking at camera with suspicion. A 1969 photo, taken by him, shows an old man with thick white beard and turban sits on his donkey, with the first bike Yarets, which had accumulated the names of countries on the windshield, all written in Cyrillic.
The journey started in 2000 took him first from Asia and Europe, then was in Morocco and from there he traveled to Venezuela, then jump some Caribbean islands. Continued by the United States and Canada, and eventually traveled all the states of the Union American, including Alaska and Hawaii. Mexico's rapid pace and was in Central America. He was then Pacific, making news in Australia and New Zealand, then flew to Japan, went through several countries in Asia Pacific, and then went around some areas of the Arab world. Later went through Europe, South Africa jumped to another and then to Chile, South America to account for, including three days around Easter Island, rented a small motorcycle there. Currently
Yarets walk back in Europe, it looks like more for pleasure than to record, because it is their third time traveling the continent, thanks the videos on YouTube and his website, the man is known and well received wherever he goes. Vladimir Yarets just missing a part of the globe to complete their goal: the great African continent.
III: Travel illustrate his fevers
Nick Jones came to Colima, Mexico, after more than 800 days of travel in Rudolf, 125 cc motorcycle in which he left Wales with the intention of not return until turning it over to the world. I opened my door and there he was, his eyes still bloodshot and muddy road to the ears, "I thought it was a puddle and was almost were quicksand, told me to tell me an incident that had taken earlier that day. Nick had contacted me through CouchSurfing.com, a community of travelers that we offer each other free accommodation, asking for asylum for a few days in Colima while fixing his bike, I gladly accepted his request.
It had all started as a project to give the bike back to England, accompanied by a friend, years ago. Then the idea grew to cross Africa from Cairo to Cape Town (including Europe, encarrerados), so they began to train, make lists of necessary equipment, trace routes and prepare papers would require for the trip, but successive injuries and physical problems were delaying the date of departure to that at one point, decided to cancel the proposal. However, Nick had been the concern, so he bought a motorcycle and proceeded to make the trip alone, now motorized plan. Nick
that the first few weeks, through France, were the hardest, by loneliness and depression. In addition, concern was a latent unknown in the way that lay ahead, and the certainty that eventually would have difficult experiences. "You know I will be spending a lot of things that you're going to lose, you're going to steal, you're going to get sick, it will break the bike, all that will happen during the trip, just a matter of time. " Nick was given space to work a couple of weeks picking grapes in France, and continued his trip through Europe en route to Turkey, then move to the Middle East and finally to Egypt.
Africa was an adventure full of contrasts. From the dangers of being an old white man in colonial territory to the breathtaking natural beauty of the continent, through fascinating encounters with human and animal groups that would not be conceivable in his homeland. Zigzagging to avoid particularly dangerous areas, Nick went through, literally, jungles and deserts over eight months, mumbling a bit of swahili progress and surviving the heat, poisonous insects, sand storms, exotic foods and beverages and the risks of going into land as of Others to ignore the map that says "Here Be Dragons."
was stoned several times in Ethiopia, where he also stole clothing and equipment in more than one occasion, had to be emergency surgery at a hospital in Nairobi, was arrested by Egyptian police, never knew exactly why, had to redo the roads several times simply because the maps did not correspond to reality orographic; happened all, but finally arrived in one piece to Cape Town, Table Mountain where the spot is a question: "And now to where?". Needed
first, money to finance the remainder of the trip, investigated, weighed options, and decided that the next step would be Korea, where he could work as an English teacher. Travel by land was out, because China does not allow entry to foreign motorcycles, so he had to embark Rudolf and take a plane. So, he spent a year in Korea, working, saving, knowing the culture, drawing strength for the next stage.
Oakland, in the Together, was the next starting point. With the south on the compass, came to Mexicali and then set out to cross the peninsula. A boat took him to Sinaloa, and then rolled to Chihuahua fell to Durango, Zacatecas, Nayarit and Jalisco then. In Colima parked a week to make repairs to his bike, relax, write, and revise maps to plot the next part of the route.
company spent good hours of chatting and drinking tea. Nick took time to hang out in Colima around and go see about the volcano we went to a concert of Susana Harp, and was pleasantly surprised with the Teatro Hidalgo was interviewed for television and newspaper, and then came in contact with a photographer who asked her to model for a session and presented him with a camera did not fuss at the local kitchen and I went to tacos, pinched, the quesadillas, salsa.
He left Paricutín taking to the volcano, with the intention of arriving in the city of Mexico, and then point to the Yucatan Peninsula. "I do not know what's going to do when he returns to England, I guess if it is going to be able to stay there," said one or two days before returning to the road. For someone who has seen the same the Eiger, in the Swiss Alps, which crossed the 450 km alone in the desert of Atbara, Sudan, must be hard to imagine a return to a sedentary life down the road.
IV: And there is /
released Nick Jones has covered 66 774 miles since it began its journey 821 days ago. The circumference of the Earth is 40 000 km, so in a straight line, has traveled the equivalent of giving him back and half the globe. Aims to reach Tierra del Fuego, and then return to England, but who knows if it is going to resist sitting still after all I lived. Vladimir
Yarets has traveled 302 279 kilometers since it began to travel, 43 years ago in his native Soviet Union. These thousands of kilometers silent Yarets that life devoted to learning the world, are the equivalent to the distance a beam of light travels in one second, just a tick in the cosmic clock.
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References: www.TalesFromTheSaddle.com, www.Yarets.com, en.wikipedia.org / wiki / Here_be_dragons
After two months of using this soap in black that I got I realized that its upper concave surface on which rests the soap was turning gray. I just simply had formed a thin layer of soap scum that produced the visual effect. Two weeks later observed The small spot has expanded enormously. After wash the soap and note that there is no way to remove what he believed a glob, examined closely. It is not any adherent material but the contrary. The soap is made from a kind of gray stone and covered with a black paint that is peeling. 
